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Ulta Beauty urged to remove Flock Safety cameras from stores
UltraViolet, a women-led gender justice organization, launched its “Drop Flock” campaign this month, calling on Ulta Beauty to terminate contracts with Flock Safety and other mass surveillance companies. The organization said its petition had surpassed 15,000 signatures as of Sept. 8.
“Ulta Beauty has built a multibillion-dollar business on women’s trust,” UltraViolet Campaign Director Jenna Sherman said in a statement accompanying the campaign’s launch. “Putting Flock, an invasive mass surveillance system, right outside its stores without customer knowledge or consent is a direct violation of that trust.”
Choked to unconsciousness: New accusations against Tate brothers emerge in Miami court.
Last year, UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization, launched a campaign online and with posters hung through Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood marking Andrew (Tate) as “Unwanted in Miami.” They branded him a “sexual predator imported to the U.S. by President Donald Trump.”
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on UK charges of rape and sex trafficking.
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair over the weekend. The brothers were arrested on Saturday (July 18) on an extradition request from British authorities.
A news release from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew had been charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
WWDC protesters want Apple to ban Elon Musk’s apps
Protesters from UltraViolet Action set up outside Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference to call for Apple to take child sexual abuse imagery more seriously. Their flyers ask for the removal of Grok, X, and other nudify technology as well as to crack down on child sexual abuse material in iCloud.
Protesters target WWDC in call for ‘nudify’ App Store bans
At the Cupertino Apple Park campus, Apple has welcomed developers and members of the press to watch its WWDC opening keynote. But protesters from UltraViolet, a women's advocacy group, are also in attendance with a sign claiming "Apple is powered by child sexual abuse."
Are Banned States Losing a Generation of Female OBGYNs?
The brilliant folks at We Testify, Shout Your Abortion, Abortion Access Front, and Ultraviolet launched the Mife Stories Project—a medication abortion storytelling campaign to fight back against Republicans’ escalating efforts to ban mifepristone.
‘Craven and Corrupt’: DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into E. Jean Carroll, Who Won Civil Cases Against Trump
Elisa Batista, campaign director at the women’s rights group UltraViolet, said, “We believe E. Jean Carroll, just as a jury of her peers did.”
“Donald Trump has been caught bragging about assaulting women, and was found liable for sexual abuse,” said Batista. “The DOJ’s investigation is nothing more than another craven and corrupt attempt by Trump to silence survivors and his personal opponents.”
Bipartisan letter calls on state attorneys general to hold ‘nudify’ apps accountable
"In a few years, we hope this digital reality we live in, in which any person can be sexually deepfaked online without recourse, will seem unfathomable; we’re putting out this letter to make sure that vision becomes reality,” said Jenna Sherman, campaign director at UltraViolet.
In a Small Room on Capitol Hill, Survivors of Epstein Refuse to Be Ignored
The presence of Model Alliance and SOAR, alongside organizations like World Without Exploitation, Polaris Project, Rights4Girls, UltraViolet, NOW and Women’s March, underscored the growing movement to confront not just individual harms caused by Epstein and his associates, but the institutions, systems and decades-long inaction or incomplete action by law enforcement that enabled it.
Virginia Giuffre remembered as ‘hero to the ages’ on first anniversary of her death
Addressing the crowd in Washington, Arisha Hatch, executive director of social justice lobby group UltraViolet, said the group would launch a new initiative, the Epstein Accountability Project, in coming days, likely during the King’s visit.
One year after her death, vigil held to remember Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
Saturday’s event was co-hosted by the Women's March, UltraViolet, World Without Exploitation, NOW, the National Women's Law Center, FEMINIST, Feminist Generation and Time's Up Legal Defense Fund.
Survivors deserve accountability — not silence
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